Open Source Contribution Etiquette

WEBINAR:On-Demand

"Some developers, when faced with fixing, or adding a feature to
an open source project are under the mistaken impression that the
first step before any fixing takes place, or before adding a new
feature takes place is to make the code "easier for them" to work
on.

"'Easier for them' usually is a combination of renaming methods,
fields, properties, locals; Refactoring of methods, classes;
Gratuitous split of code in different files, or merging of code
into a single file; Reorganization by alphabetical order, or
functional order, or grouping functions closer to each other, or
having helper methods first, or helper methods last. Changing
indentation, aligning variables, or parameters or dozen other
smaller changes."